oven : Idioms & Phrases


Dutch oven

  • noun an oven consisting of a metal box for cooking in front of a fire
  • noun iron or earthenware cooking pot; used for stews
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  • a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.
Webster 1913

Flattening oven

  • in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.
Webster 1913

gas oven

  • noun a cremation chamber fueled by gas
  • noun a domestic oven fueled by gas
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glost oven

Glost" ov`en
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  1. An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.
Webster 1913

have a bun in the oven

  • verb be pregnant with
    carry; gestate; bear; expect.
    • She is bearing his child
    • The are expecting another child in January
    • I am carrying his child
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microwave oven

  • noun kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food
    microwave.
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oven broil

  • verb cook under a broiler
    broil.
    • broil fish
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oven stuffer

  • noun a brand name for a roasting chicken
    Oven Stuffer.
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oven stuffer roaster

  • noun a brand name for a roasting chicken
    Oven Stuffer.
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oven thermometer

  • noun a thermometer that registers the temperature inside an oven
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oven-ready

  • adjective satellite prepared before sale and ready to be cooked
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oven-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped like an oven
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Reel oven

  • a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis.
Webster 1913

Toaster oven

  • noun kitchen appliance consisting of a small electric oven for toasting or warming food
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  • . an electrical toaster.
Webster 1913